A few Decca record covers done by ISO50 favorite, Erik Nitsche. I was browsing Flickr for some or Nitsche’s work and I came across the massive assortment of images here, compiled by BustBright. I am in love with the type on these, especially the “Schlusnus sings” typeface. I’m not sure what it is but it amazing. And I always love Didot — if you browse the rest of the archive, you’ll see a lot of that.

can we all just agree that Nitsche is the best? i saw a bunch of his 30×40 stone litho general dynamics prints at a poster show a while back. my wife had to drag me outta there….unbelievable in person.

I’ll have to see if I can find the article, but in it Nitsche did discuss some of the background info behind the sleeve’s designs. Most of them were somehow referencing the music—either visualizing their sounds or something culturally connected to the artist or songs. I do remember that the Schlusnus series uses images (the acorns) from a traditional set of German playing cards—this was meant to reference the fact that Schlusnus was singing traditional German folk songs for this particular series of records.

I can’t remember the name of the typeface the Schlusnus Signs is based upon, but its the same thing he used for the General Dynamics logo.